Oracle VM VirtualBox: Ticket #8024: virtualbox doesn't found files for restore snapshots => Fixed in SVNhttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024
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Hello everybody
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I used about 30 times the fonction of snapshot and restored it
and it's worked very well.
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but on one virtual machine it's not working anymore when it's still working on other machines without problem (I didn't tryed to make new snapshots)
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well I have a message like that when I try to restore :
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<pre class="wiki">Failed to restore the snapshot office installé non-activé of the virtual machine windows XP français 2.
Could not copy the state file
'/home/paz/.VirtualBox/Machines/windows XP français 2/ots/{6ea91f87-7450-4094-8f24-1c282b19a556}.sav'
to '/home/paz/.VirtualBox/Machines/windows XP français 2/ots/{62178c3c-48ef-4c03-a4b1-e4d28f9656d4}.sav' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND).
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If I locate the file, for instace with "locate" and if I place it at the requested file it's working. I used to do it with every snapshot that I had. I used to place it in the folder "hots" it's like it's it loosed a leter. From <strong>shots</strong> to <strong>hots</strong>. Now it's loosed a leter more, from <strong>hots</strong> to <strong>ots</strong>...
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weird bug, isn't.
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I wanted to erase everything and comeback to virtualbox 3.2.*
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but I though it's was better for the comunity to make a bug report because I didn't find any bug report who was related to my problem.
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Thanks for reading me, I hope it's could be usefull for improve virtualbox.
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Trac 0.12remibemolFri, 07 Jan 2011 03:17:52 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024
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screenshot of the bug
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TicketremibemolFri, 07 Jan 2011 03:23:47 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024
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see the evolutions on the machine folder, you can see folder loosing letters
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TicketremibemolFri, 07 Jan 2011 03:27:16 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:1
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:1
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see the attachments
you can see the evolution in the folder of the snapshots folder who loosed letters several times
<strong>there is now only 3 left '''
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I think it's a funny bug...
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I forgot to wish you the best for 2011 !
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TicketremibemolMon, 10 Jan 2011 21:34:13 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024
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xml file
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TicketremibemolThu, 13 Jan 2011 02:41:42 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:2
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:2
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perhaps it's come from the fact that I use a french letter "ç"
It's probably coded in two bytes in UTF-8
perhaps the bug come from that
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what do you think about that ?
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TicketfrankFri, 14 Jan 2011 14:35:23 GMTsummary changedhttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:3
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:3
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changed from <em>virtualbox doesn't found files for restore snapshots</em> to <em>virtualbox doesn't found files for restore snapshots => Fixed in SVN</em>
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Thanks for the report and for the analysis! The next maintenance release will contain the fix.
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To make your VM bootable again you must
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<ol><li>Terminate the GUI and all VMs
</li><li>Make sure that no VBoxSVC daemon is running
</li><li>Edit all machine files (.vbox) manually and search for words like 'apshots' or 'pshots' (Snapshots with one or more leading letter). Change all occurrences to 'Snapshots'.
</li><li>Do the same for the snapshots folder of each VM (rename the directory name)
</li><li>Start the GUI
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TicketremibemolSun, 16 Jan 2011 00:31:13 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:4
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:4
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hello
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thank for your answser
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When will be the next maintenance release?
did I need to copile it myself for have the bug corrected?
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Do you find the bug because of my report?
did it was because of the special charater?
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Rémi
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TicketremibemolSun, 16 Jan 2011 00:31:40 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:5
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:5
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hello
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thank for your answser
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When will be the next maintenance release?
did I need to copile it myself for have the bug corrected?
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Do you find the bug because of my report?
did it was because of the special charater?
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Rémi
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TicketfrankTue, 18 Jan 2011 07:37:43 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:6
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:6
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The next maintenance release will be released soon. When the release is out, either use the precompiled binaries or compile VirtualBox yourself. And yes, as I wrote, we found the bug. Yes, it was because UTF8 characters weren't correctly handled at one place.
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TicketumoellerTue, 18 Jan 2011 18:41:57 GMTstatus changed; resolution sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:7
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8024#comment:7
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set to <em>fixed</em>
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